Vancouver bedroom electro favourite Teen Daze has been named as one of the 10 winners in Bon Iver‘s “Stems Project” remix contest, which asked artists to remix one track from Justin Vernon’s critically acclaimed album Bon Iver, Bon Iver.
Teen Daze’s remix for Perth, the opening track to the Grammy-winning album, has landed him $1,000 and a spot on an exclusive Spotify remix playlist available worldwide (although, ironically, not in Canada).
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To celebrate the release of its final Immersion box set for seminal double album The Wall, prog rockers Pink Floyd are offering a one-hour video retrospective via YouTube entitled A Pink Floyd Miscellany: 1967-2005.
The video, which comes one day after the 45th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd’s first single Arnold Layne, includes a bunch of little tidbits of trivia about the band and its material, shown with lots of ... Read More …

Blues-rock duo The Black Keys have revealed five songs from their upcoming album El Camino, out Tuesday, Dec. 6 on Nonesuch Records.
The five songs are available for streaming via The Black Keys website. All you need to do is provide your e-mail address (which also signs you up for their mailing list), a postal code (just type in a fake zip code like 90210, Canadian postal codes do not work for some reason) ... Read More …

Master poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen has revealed the first single from his new album Old Ideas, to be released in early 2012.
The song, entitled Show Me The Place, is a mournful yarn few others could deliver the way Cohen does. You can listen to the shiver-inducing track below.
“As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice,” Cohen remarked when he received the Principe de Asturias Prize for ... Read More …

Are you ready for this?
Nickelback‘s seventh album Here and Now is currently available for free streaming via iTunes until Nov. 21, the day of its release.
Recorded at Vancouver’s Mountain View Studios, Here and Now is the follow-up to the six times platinum Dark Horse.
First impressions? Well, it’s Nickelback, so there is plenty of cookie-cutter rocking about boozing (Bottoms Up), the ladies (“She’s gonna be my midnight queen/She’s gonna ... Read More …